The Irish standard., 1887-07-09

ButTve never known sorrow
That could with that compare,
When out behind old Granthers barn
Ismoked 1ny first cigar.
THE GREAT CIVIL WAR.
The Most Destructive, Costly and MUIR
derOus Combat Ever Waged.
A writer in the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette, speaking of the lives sacrificed on
the Federal and Confederate sides during
the great struggle of 1s61-65, remarks:
heard one Of the young generation saying
that he was little tired Of hearing con-
tinually of the immense sacrifice of lives
and treasure made by the people in the
great civil war and all that. The tone inn
piled that it was not such a terrible thing
after all, and was rather small potatoes as
wars go. 1t is we'll enough to freshen up
the minds of the boys now and then as to
the facts of that war and what it cost their
fathers. 1t takes but few figures to show
that 1T was one of the greatest and most
momentous wars ever waged among civil
lied people, and, taking into consideration
its length, the most destructive, costly
and murderous ever waged.
Most of the famous wars Of ancient his
tory that the young men pour over in
Latin and Greek were not very great wars
after all compared with that fought out
by their fathers. Look over these dread
full figures, young man, and consider the
awful significance of the following facts: T:
Official returns show that about z, ,653, 900
soldiers enlisted during the war IN re-
sponsive to the successive calls of Presi-
dent Lincoln, and that of this number
1s6C97 were colored troops.
oh hot 40 NNrtharn
Southern armies met in over 2,0O0 skir-
mishes and battles. In 148 of these con-
flicts the loss on the Federal side was over
500 men, and in at least ten battles owe.
10000 men were reported lost on eac4
side. The appended table shows that
the combined losses of the Federal and
Confederate forces in killed, wounded and
missing in the following engagements
were:
Shiloh, $4,000; Antietam, $4,000; Stone
R;ver $4,000; Chickamauga, $4,000; Nc
Clellan's Peninsula campaign, $4,000;
Grants Peninsula campaign, 100000; and
Sherman's campaign, $4,000.
Official statistics show that of the 2,653,-
Os0 men enlisted, there were killed in bat
tie 4423S; died Of wounds, 49,2?5;s died of
disease, 1926; died of unknown causes,
"a, 1874; total, SO3 S43 This includes only
those whose death while in the army had
been actually proved. To this number
should be added, first, 26000 men who are
known to have died while in the hands of
the enemy as prisoners of war, and many
others in the same manner whose deaths
of the 205, 794 men who are putdown on the
official reports as deserters and missing in
action, for those who participated in the
war know that men frequently disappear
who, it was certain, had not deserted, yet
could not be otherwise officially accounted
for; third, thousands who are buried in
private cemeteries all over the North who
diel while at home on furlough.
The Nations dead are buried in seventy.
three National cemeteries, of which only
twelve are in the Northern States. Among
the principal ones in the North are Cypress
Hill, with its g. 7S6 dead; Finn's Point, N.
j., which contains the remains of 2, GA un-
known dead; Gettysburg, Pa, with its
1867 known and 1908 unknown dead;
Mound City, ILL.,, with 25O5 known and
2, III unknown graves; Philadelphia, with
1899 dead; and Wooilawn, Elmira, n Y,
with its $500 dead.
In the South, near the scenes of terrible
conflicts, are located the largest deposit
tories of the Nations heroic dead:
Arlington, Va, 16264, OF which 1919 are un-
known.
Beaufort, s. c., 9241, of which 4,4es are un-
known.
Chalmettee, La, 1851, of which 5,674 are un-
known.
Chattanooga, Tenn, Il, 962 of which 4,e6s are
unknown.
Fredericksburg, Va, 15,257, of which IL, 40 are
unknown.
Jefferson Barracks, Mo-, 11,49o, of which $500
are unknown.
Little Rock Ark, $500, of which 1887 are un-
known.
City Point, Va, 5,1a2, of which 1874 are un-
known.
Marietta, Ga, 10, 151, Of which 1888 are un-
known.
Memphis, Tenn, Il, 997, OF which e.s17 are un-
known.
Nashville, Tenn, 1885, OF which 400 are un-
Poplar Grove, Va, e,19O, of which 4,001 are
unknown.
Richmond, ", e542, of which $500 are un-
known.
Salisbury, NJ c., 1926, Of which 1902 are un-
known.
Stone River. Tenn, 5000, of which 2ss are un-
known.
vicksburg, Miss, $1,000, Of which 12,7o4 are
unknown.
Antietam, Va, 4,e71, of which 1878 are un-
known.
Winchester, Va, 1859, OF which 1906 are un-
known.
In all the remains of 100000 men who
fought for the stars and stripes find
guarded graves in our Nation al cemeteries.
Two cemeteries are mainly devoted to the
men who perished in the prisons Of the
same name-Andersonville, Ca, which
contains 13, IA graves, and Salisbury, with
its II, 126 dead, among which II, ,032 are un-
known
OF the vast number who are inferred in
our National cemeteries, 2750o0 sleep be-
meath the soil of the Southern States, and
145 OOO of these rest in graves marked un-
known.
The total Confederate loss will never be
known, but the best estimates place it at
about 100000 men out of 900 600 men who
served in the Southern armies They
fought during the war on the defensive,
among friends, and generally under cover
Of breastwor3ks of one kind or another.
from rifle-pits to regular Notifications
which gave them an enormous advantage
The total number of men furnished to
the Federal army by the United States dur
ing the war under all calls was S,6s3,523
The total number. OF colored troops in the